5.3Medium
Haxx Curl
CVE-2025-14524
When an OAuth2 bearer token is used for an HTTP(S) transfer, and that transfer performs a cross-protocol redirect to a second URL that uses an IMAP, LDAP, POP3 or SMTP scheme, curl might wrongly pass on the bearer token to the new target host.
What this means for your business
- It affects Haxx Curl. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
- Code showing how to exploit it has been published, but real attacks have not been confirmed.
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, without a login, but only after tricking someone into an action such as opening a file or a link.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.7% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 50% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Haxx Curl, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
- 2If you do, apply the vendor's fix. A patch or vendor advisory has been published.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 5.3 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N- Weakness
- CWE-522
- Assigned by
- 2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9
Dates
- Published
- 2026-01-08
- Last modified
- 2026-09-15
- Sources
- NVD
Affected products
- Haxx Curl7.33.0 - 8.18.0
As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.